The World Did Not Recognise Yah'shuah When He Came
John 1:9-14 reads,
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The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.Why didn't the world recognise Yah'shuah, the Word, when he came among them and lived among them? Was it because they were blind?
Do We Reject Yah'shuah's Witness?
John 3:9-12 reads,
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Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"3:10
Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? 3:11Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. 3:12If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?Are we like Nicodemus in not understanding the things that Yah'shuah speaks? Do we, like Nicodemus, refuse to receive Yah'shuah's witness? Do we believe the earthly things that Yah'shuah speaks about?
What earthly things did Yah'shuah speak about?
Worship The Father In Spirit And In Truth
John 4:19-24 reads,
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The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 4:20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."4:21
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 4:23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. 4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."Do we believe Yah'shuah's words that true worshippers should now worship the Father in spirit and in truth, without necessarily restricting their worship from the geographical location of Jerusalem?
Follow The Example Of The Nobleman Who Believed Yah'shuah's Word
John 4:46-53 reads,
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Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 4:47When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 4:48Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."4:49
The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 4:50Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 4:51As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" 4:52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." 4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.Shouldn't we follow the example set for us by the nobleman, of believing the word that Yah'shuah speaks? Won't we also receive our request from Yah'shuah when we believe the word that he speaks, even as the nobleman received his request from Yah'shuah?
Believe Yahweh Through Yah'shuah's Word
John 5:24 reads,
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"Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.Do we believe Yah'shuah's word, the word Yahweh gave him to speak? Do we have eternal life abiding in us, on account of believing Yah'shuah's word?
Those Who Do Not Have Yahweh's Word Living In Them
John 5:37-47 reads,
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The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don’t believe.5:39
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 5:41I don’t receive glory from men. 5:42But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?5:45
"Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"Isn't it the case that if we don't believe Yah'shuah, whom Yahweh sent, we do not have Yahweh the Father's word - Yah'shuah - living in us? Isn't it the case that only those who believe Yah'shuah have Yah'shuah living in them? Do we have Yah'shuah living in us? Do we believe Yah'shuah?
Seeking And Receiving Human Glory Is An Impediment To Believing Yah'shuah
Isn't the seeking and receipt of human glory an impediment to believing Yah'shuah, as seen in 5:44? Shouldn't we follow Yah'shuah's example in forsaking the seeking and receipt of human glory? Shouldn't we follow Yah'shuah's example in seeking the glory that comes from the only Mighty One - Yahweh? Doesn't seeking the glory that comes from Yahweh facilitate our believing Yah'shuah, and thereby his living in us?
It Is Necessary To Believe Moses' Writings In Order To Believe Yah'shuah's Words
Doesn't Yah'shuah show, in 5:46-47, that it is necessary to believe Moses' writings in order to believe his words? Do we, in deference to Yah'shuah's word, believe Moses' writings? Or do we, in deference to human beings who bestow their own glory, reject Moses' writings and therefore do not believe them? Shouldn't we seek Yahweh's glory and believe Moses' writings, thereby facilitating our believing Yah'shuah's words?
Yah'shuah's Words Are In Harmony With Moses' Writings
Doesn't Yah'shuah imply that his words are in harmony with Moses' writings, for those who do not believe Moses' writings do not believe his words, and those who do believe Moses' writings believe his words? Shouldn't we believe Moses' writings rather than shun them as is the practice of many who purport to follow Yah'shuah's word but do not?
John 6:30-71 reads,
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They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’"6:32
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."6:34
They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."6:35
Jesus said to them. "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:36But I told you that you have seen me, and yet don’t believe. 6:37All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."6:41
The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." 6:42They said, "Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’"6:43
Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur among yourselves. 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 6:46Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 6:47Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 6:48I am the bread of life. 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world."6:52
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:55For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." 6:59These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?"6:61
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 6:62What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 6:64But there are some of you who don’t believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. 6:65He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 6:67Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don’t also want to go away, do you?"6:68
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."6:70
He answered them, "Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" 6:71Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
Those The Father Gives To Yah'shuah Go To Yah'shuah
Are we like the Jews in Capernaum who see Yah'shuah but do not believe him and therefore do not go to him? Doesn't 6:37 show that those whom the Father gives to Yah'shuah go to Yah'shuah? Isn't it therefore implied that those whom the Father gives to Yah'shuah are those who believe Yah'shuah, and that those whom the Father has not given to Yah'shuah do not believe Yah'shuah? Has the Father given you to Yah'shuah? Do you believe Yah'shuah?
No One Goes To Yah'shuah Unless Drawn By The Father
Don't Yah'shuah's words in 6:44-45 show that no one can go to him unless the Father draws that one to him? Don't Yah'shuah's words also show that those who go to him are those who have learned of the Father, after having heard from him? Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that if one has not learned of the Father, after having heard from him, that one cannot go to Yah'shuah? Have you heard from the Father? Have you learned of the Father after having heard from him? Have you gone to Yah'shuah?
Many Of Yah'shuah's Disciples Do Not Believe His Words
Isn't it the case, as seen from 6:60-66, that many of Yah'shuah's disciples found his words hard to bear and did not believe him or his words? Didn't many of Yah'shuah's disciples stumble in unbelief at Yah'shuah's words? Isn't it the case that just because a person appears for a time to be a disciple of Yah'shuah he has not necessarily gone to Yah'shuah? For even though these disciples of Yah'shuah who stumbled at his word had appeared to be his disciples, he - Yah'shuah - did not consider them as having gone to him? For the Father had not drawn them to Yah'shuah? Isn't it also the case that just because a person appears for a time to be a disciple of Yah'shuah it should not be concluded that the Father drew that one to Yah'shuah? For not all who associate themselves with Yah'shuah for a season have been drawn to him by the Father?
Those Truly Drawn By The Father To Yah'shuah
Then who are the ones truly drawn by the Father to Yah'shuah? Aren't these, as Yah'shuah shows in 6:44-45, those who have heard from the Father, have been taught by him and have learned of him? In other words, isn't it the case that unless one has heard from the Father, been taught by him and learned of him, one is not drawn by the Father to Yah'shuah?
Two Different Groups Of People Drawn By Yah'shuah
Isn't it also clear that there are two groups of people drawn to Yah'shuah, those drawn by the Father and those not drawn by the Father? Isn't it also clear that those drawn to Yah'shuah but not drawn by the Father do not believe Yah'shuah's words? For even though they associate with Yah'shuah they have not really gone to Yah'shuah? If such associate with Yah'shuah for a period of time, but have not really gone to Yah'shuah, why do they associate with Yah'shuah? Do they have their own separate interest in associating with Yah'shuah even though they have not truly gone to him?
Yah'shuah's Word Eventually Separates His Disciples Into Two Groups
Isn't it also the case that a time eventually comes that Yah'shuah's word separates between those calling themselves his disciples into two groups? One group of those who continue to believe Yah'shuah's word and the other group of those who stumble at his word, disbelieve it, and forsake associating with him? Isn't it therefore the case that at any given point in time not all who call themselves Yah'shuah's disciples have truly gone to him, with his disciples being made up of both true and false disciples?
Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah? Are you a false disciple of Yah'shuah?
False Disciples Of Yah'shuah Believe That He Is The Christ
John 8:30-36 reads,
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As he spoke these things, many believed in him. 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."8:33
They answered him, "We are Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free?’"8:34
Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 8:35A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.Didn't Yah'shuah imply in 8:30-31 that among those who believe in him, those who believe that he is the Christ, there are both true and false disciples? Implying that even false disciples believe that he Yah'shuah is indeed the Christ?
Distinction Between True And False Disciples Of Yah'shuah
Didn't Yah'shuah also show that what distinguishes between his true and false disciples is their conduct after the passage of time? For his true disciples remain in his word while the false ones do not, falling away?
Are you a disciple of Yah'shuah? How long have you been a disciple of Yah'shuah? Are you still remaining in Yah'shuah's word or have you fallen away from it? Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah or a false one, having abandoned Yah'shuah's word?
The Devil's Children And Disciples
John 8:42-47 reads,
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Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 8:44You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God."Isn't it the case that those who do not receive and believe Yah'shuah's word do not belong to Yahweh but belong to the devil? Isn't it the case that among those calling themselves Yah'shuah's disciples, but who do not remain in his word, are the devil's children and disciples? Isn't it the case that Yah'shuah's false disciples are indeed the devil's children and disciples? Isn't it the case that those who profess to be Yah'shuah's disciples include both Yah'shuah's true disciples, Yahweh's children, and the devil's disciples, the devil's children?
Distinguishing Between Yah'shuah's Disciples And The Devil's Children
How may one distinguish between Yah'shuah's true disciples and the devil's children assembling together with Yah'shuah's true disciples? Isn't it by noting those who receive and believe Yah'shuah's word? For those who truly belong to Yah'shuah remain in his word while those who do not belong to him stumble on account of it and fall away from it?
Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah, a child of Yahweh the Father? Or are you a child of the devil?
The Example Of The Blind Person Healed By Yah'shuah
John 9:35-41 reads,
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Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"9:36
He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"9:37
Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."9:38
He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.9:39
Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind."9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"9:41
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.Shouldn't we follow the example of the blind person whom Yah'shuah healed? Such that after his healing he both saw and believed Yah'shuah and worshipped him?
Guilt Borne By Professing Visionaries
Doesn't 9:40-41 show that there are those who profess to understand scriptural matters and thereby having spiritual vision? Doesn't Yah'shuah show that those who profess to have vision, but do not believe him and go to him, are not cleared of their guilt of not believing him and going to him?
Doesn't 9:41 show that a spiritually blind person is not condemned for acting out of his blindness? In that because of his blindness he does not see Yah'shuah and does not go to him? On the other hand, isn't it the case that those who indeed recognise that Yah'shuah is the Christ, yet do not believe him and go to him, are rendered guilty, on account of not following Yahweh's word?
Do you recognise Yah'shuah as the Messiah? Do you believe him? Have you gone to him? Are you remaining in his word?
John 10:22-39 reads,
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It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. 10:23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 10:24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."10:25
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. 10:26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 10:30I and the Father are one."10:31
Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 10:32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"10:33
The Jews answered him, "We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."10:34
Jesus answered them, "Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), 10:36Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ 10:37If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."10:39
They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.Doesn't Yah'shuah reiterate in 10:26-27 that those who do not believe him are those who do not belong to him? And that those who believe him indeed follow him and he in turn knows them?
How were the Jews to know whether the works that Yah'shuah did were the Father's works or not, seeing that Yah'shuah's comments in 10:37 imply that they needed to know what constituted the Father's works to assess Yah'shuah? Wasn't it from their understanding and belief of the writings of Moses, seeing that Yah'shuah said that one had to believe Moses' writings in order to believe Yah'shuah?
Do you believe Moses' writings? Do you believe Yah'shuah?
Follow Martha's Example Of Believing Yah'shuah
John 11:11-45 reads,
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He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."11:12
The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."11:13
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 11:14So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. 11:15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him."11:16
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let’s go also, that we may die with him."11:17
So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 11:18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 11:19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 11:20Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 11:21Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 11:22Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you." 11:23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."11:24
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. 11:26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"11:27
She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world."11:28
When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."11:29
She, when she heard this, arose quickly, and went to him. 11:30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 11:31Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." 11:32Mary therefore, when she came to where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died."11:33
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 11:34and said, "Where have you laid him?"They told him, "Lord, come and see."
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Jesus wept.11:36
The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" 11:37Some of them said, "Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also caused that this man wouldn’t die?"11:38
Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 11:39Jesus said, "Take away the stone."Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
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Jesus said to her, "Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?"11:41
So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." 11:43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"11:44
He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
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Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw that which Jesus did, believed in him.Shouldn't we follow Martha's example, of believing Yah'shuah? And for so believing Yah'shuah, won't we also see Yahweh's glory?
Why Many Do Not Believe Yah'shuah
John 12:37-40 reads,
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But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, 12:38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,"Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
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For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,Do you believe Yah'shuah? Are your eyes blind? Is your heart hardened? Or do you see with your eyes and perceive with your heart? Have you turned to Yahweh that he heals you? Has Yahweh healed you?
John 12:44-50 reads,
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Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. 12:45He who sees me sees him who sent me. 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 12:48He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
Yah'shuah Speaks The Father's Words
John 14:9-14 reads,
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Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 14:12Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I am going to my Father. 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14:14If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Even True Disciples Of Yah'shuah Sometimes Stumble
John 16:26-33 reads,
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In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 16:28I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."16:29
His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech. 16:30Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."16:31
Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? 16:32Behold, the time comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."Isn't it the case that even though Yah'shuah's disciples believe him, they sometimes stumble on account of worldly oppression? Isn't it the case that there are times when Yah'shuah's disciples are not sufficiently strong to overcome the world?
Nevertheless, isn't it the case that they should follow their master's example, seeing that Yah'shuah overcame the world? Shouldn't Yah'shuah's disciples strive to overcome the world and not stumble on account of worldly oppression?
Yah'shuah's True Disciples Receive His Words
John 17:6-9 reads,
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I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. 17:7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they believed that you sent me. 17:9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Blessed Are Those Who Believe Without Having Seen
John 20:24-29 reads,
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But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. 20:25The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!"But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
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After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you." 20:27Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing."20:28
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"20:29
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
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